Psalm 113

Psalm 113New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 113

Praise the Lord, you his servants;praise the name of the Lord.2 Let the name of the Lord be praised,both now and forevermore.3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,the name of the Lord is to be praised.

4 The Lord is exalted over all the nations,his glory above the heavens.5 Who is like the Lord our God,the One who sits enthroned on high,6 who stoops down to lookon the heavens and the earth?

7 He raises the poor from the dustand lifts the needy from the ash heap;8 he seats them with princes,with the princes of his people.9 He settles the childless woman in her homeas a happy mother of children.

Isaiah 5:8-23

Isaiah 5:8-23New International Version (NIV)

Woes and Judgments

8 Woe to you who add house to houseand join field to fieldtill no space is leftand you live alone in the land.

9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing:

“Surely the great houses will become desolate,the fine mansions left without occupants.10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morningto run after their drinks,who stay up late at nighttill they are inflamed with wine.12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,pipes and timbrels and wine,but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,no respect for the work of his hands.13 Therefore my people will go into exilefor lack of understanding;those of high rank will die of hungerand the common people will be parched with thirst.14 Therefore Death expands its jaws,opening wide its mouth;into it will descend their nobles and masseswith all their brawlers and revelers.15 So people will be brought lowand everyone humbled,the eyes of the arrogant humbled.16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice,and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;lambs will feed[d] among the ruins of the rich.

18 Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit,and wickedness as with cart ropes,19 to those who say, “Let God hurry;let him hasten his workso we may see it.The plan of the Holy One of Israel—let it approach, let it come into view,so we may know it.”

20 Woe to those who call evil goodand good evil,who put darkness for lightand light for darkness,who put bitter for sweetand sweet for bitter.

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesand clever in their own sight.

22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wineand champions at mixing drinks,23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,but deny justice to the innocent.

Mark 12:41-44

Mark 12:41-44New International Version (NIV)

The Widow’s Offering

41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

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